Summary
Hillview High (Continuation) is a small, 9–12 school in Tustin, California, with 142 students, in Tustin Unified. In 2025–26, graduation was 79%, compared with 88% statewide and 96% in the district; the dropout rate was 15%, versus 8% statewide and 2% in the district. The most urgent concern is chronic absenteeism: 78% of students were chronically absent, about 60 percentage points above the state and 67 points above the district.
Test results were well below state, district and nearby high school averages in all three subjects. In 2025–26, 24% were proficient in English language arts (ELA), versus 49% statewide and 64% in the district; math proficiency was 0%, compared with 38% and 56%, and science was 4%, versus 36% and 50%. ELA is the school’s strongest subject relative to state and district results, while math is the weakest on those comparisons. Against the nearby 9–12 peer averages, however, the gaps were largest in science: 32 points below average in ELA, 42 in math and 42 in science, with science marginally the widest gap.
Scores have improved recently in ELA but have not kept pace with the state over time: proficiency rose from 9% in 2024–25 to 24% in 2025–26, still just below 25% in 2022–23, while the gap to the state widened from 22 to 25 points. Math remained at 0% in the latest year, and its state gap widened from 35 to 38 points; science rose from 3% to 4%, but its gap grew from 27 to 32 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school at the 13th statewide percentile, with 1 star, for 2025–26 (1,854th of 2,137), up from the 5th percentile in 2023–24. Its student-teacher ratio was 12.6 in 2024–25, lower than most nearby schools, while 92% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year, the second-highest share among nearby schools with the same measure. SchoolDigger’s effectiveness ranking for English Language Learner Students was comparatively stronger: the group ranked at the 20th percentile in 2023–24, above the school’s overall 5th-percentile standing, though down from the group’s 35th percentile the year before.
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